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Psalms 114:8
8He turns a rock into a pool filled with water and turns flint into a spring flowing with water.
Psalms 114:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
- New International Version (NIV)who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.
- English Standard Version (ESV)who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.
Context of Psalms 114:8
6Mountains, what made you jump like rams? Hills, what made you jump like lambs? 7Earth, tremble in the presence of the Lord, in the presence of the God of Jacob. He turns a rock into a pool filled with water and turns flint into a spring flowing with water.
Read all of Psalms 114Psalms 114:8 word by word
הַהֹפְכִ֣י הַצּ֣וּר אֲגַם־מָ֑יִם חַ֝לָּמִ֗ישׁ לְמַעְיְנוֹ־מָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 114:8
- Psalms 78:15He split rocks in the desert. He gave them plenty to drink, an ocean of water.
- Psalms 105:41He opened a rock, and water gushed and flowed like a river through the dry places.
- Psalms 107:35He changes deserts into lakes and dry ground into springs.
- Exodus 17:6I’ll be standing in front of you there by a rock at Mount Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” Moses did this while the leaders of Israel watched him.
- Numbers 20:11Moses raised his hand and hit the rock twice with the staff. Water came pouring out, and all the people and their animals drank.
- Deuteronomy 8:15He was the one who led you through that vast and dangerous desert—a thirsty and arid land, with poisonous snakes and scorpions. He was the one who made water come out of solid rock for you.
- Nehemiah 9:15You gave them bread from heaven to satisfy their hunger and made water flow from a rock to quench their thirst. You told them to take possession of the land that you swore you would give them.
- 1 Corinthians 10:4and all of them drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them, and that rock was Christ.
Commentaries on Psalms 114:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8The flint - I have translated חלמיש challamish, Granite; for such is the rock of Horeb, a piece of which now lies before me. This short and apparently imperfect Psalm, for elegance and sublimity, yields to few in the whole book. It is so well translated in the old Psalter, that I think I shall gratify the reader by laying it before him. Psalm 114:1; In gangyng of Isrel oute of Egipt, Of the house of Jacob fra hethen folke. Psalm 114:2; Made is Jude his…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Which turned the rock into a standing water - That is, Before him who could do this, the earth should tremble; the inhabited world should stand in awe of such amazing power. The words rendered “a standing water,” mean properly a pool of water. They indicate nothing in regard to the permanency of that pool; they do not imply that it remained as a standing pool during the sojourn of the Israelites in the wilderness - whatever may have been the fact in…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8The Lord miraculously provided for his people in hard times after the exile, just as he had done in the wilderness after the exodus.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-85-8. The questions place the implied answers in a more striking form.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 114
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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